Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 23 84
Rank change year-on-year +1 +61 +29
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 201 147 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.38% 8.53% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.37% 9.03% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 112 28
10th Percentile £400 £413 £359
25th Percentile £466 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.77%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £689
90th Percentile £763 £773 £758
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -3.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,939 1,628 1,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.44% 94.43% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,094 1,210
10th Percentile £363 £326 £367
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.98%) Confluence
2 9 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.98%) Apache
3 8 (3.98%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.00%) SAS
6 1 (0.50%) CMS
6 1 (0.50%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.00%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.00%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.50%) SAP FI-FM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.50%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 55 (27.36%) Azure
2 30 (14.93%) Power Platform
3 28 (13.93%) AWS
4 15 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (5.47%) GCP
6 11 (5.47%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (3.48%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.48%) SaaS
9 6 (2.99%) dbt
9 6 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.99%) Serverless
10 5 (2.49%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.49%) GitHub
11 4 (1.99%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) Network Security
2 2 (1.00%) DNS
2 2 (1.00%) Internet
2 2 (1.00%) LAN
2 2 (1.00%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.00%) VPN
2 2 (1.00%) WAN
2 2 (1.00%) Wireless
3 1 (0.50%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.50%) PSTN
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) VLAN
3 1 (0.50%) VoIP
3 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.43%) Power BI
2 18 (8.96%) Metadata
3 14 (6.97%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.48%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.99%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.99%) Star Schema
6 4 (1.99%) Tableau
7 3 (1.49%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.49%) Power Query
7 3 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.00%) Ataccama
8 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.00%) Looker
8 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.00%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (9.45%) JIRA
2 3 (1.49%) Git
2 3 (1.49%) GitLab
3 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.00%) Selenium
3 2 (1.00%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.50%) Gradle
4 1 (0.50%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.50%) JUnit
4 1 (0.50%) Maven
4 1 (0.50%) MLflow
4 1 (0.50%) Mockito
4 1 (0.50%) MSI
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 84 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 73 (36.32%) Finance
3 35 (17.41%) Public Sector
4 33 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (15.92%) Banking
6 17 (8.46%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.48%) Retail
8 8 (3.98%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.99%) Marketing
9 6 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.99%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.99%) Front Office
12 3 (1.49%) Billing
12 3 (1.49%) Local Government
12 3 (1.49%) Military
12 3 (1.49%) Police
12 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (16.92%) Architect
2 32 (15.92%) Analyst
3 25 (12.44%) Lead
4 22 (10.95%) Senior
5 21 (10.45%) Data Architect
6 20 (9.95%) Project Manager
7 19 (9.45%) Business Analyst
8 13 (6.47%) Consultant
8 13 (6.47%) Developer
9 8 (3.98%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.48%) Change Manager
11 6 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (2.99%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.99%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.49%) Power BI Developer
13 4 (1.99%) Business Manager
13 4 (1.99%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 4 (1.99%) Python Engineer
13 4 (1.99%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.47%) PySpark
2 8 (3.98%) REST
2 8 (3.98%) Terraform
3 4 (1.99%) Spring
3 4 (1.99%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.99%) XML
4 3 (1.49%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.49%) JSON
4 3 (1.49%) Kafka
4 3 (1.49%) Middleware
4 3 (1.49%) RESTful
5 2 (1.00%) Flask
5 2 (1.00%) Playwright
5 2 (1.00%) React
5 2 (1.00%) SOAP
6 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.50%) pytest
6 1 (0.50%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.50%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.46%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.47%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.98%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.98%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.99%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.00%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.00%) Derivative
9 2 (1.00%) FMCG
9 2 (1.00%) NHS
9 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.99%) Linux
2 3 (1.49%) Unix
3 2 (1.00%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (39.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (27.86%) Agile
3 48 (23.88%) Decision-Making
4 39 (19.40%) Analytics
5 38 (18.91%) AI
6 36 (17.91%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (17.91%) Data Modelling
7 35 (17.41%) Data Governance
8 34 (16.92%) Roadmaps
9 33 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (15.42%) DevOps
10 31 (15.42%) Migration
11 27 (13.43%) CI/CD
12 25 (12.44%) Data Architecture
13 23 (11.44%) Requirements Gathering
14 21 (10.45%) Project Delivery
14 21 (10.45%) Project Management
15 19 (9.45%) Change Management
15 19 (9.45%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.41%) SQL
2 24 (11.94%) Python
3 8 (3.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (2.49%) Bicep
4 5 (2.49%) Java
5 4 (1.99%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.00%) LookML
6 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.50%) C#
7 1 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.50%) Korn
7 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.50%) Scala
7 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.47%) Degree
4 8 (3.98%) PMP
5 6 (2.99%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.49%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.00%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.00%) OSCP
10 1 (0.50%) APMG
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.92%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.97%) GDPR
3 10 (4.98%) PMO
3 10 (4.98%) QA
4 7 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.48%) NIST
5 6 (2.99%) NCSC
6 4 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.00%) GRC
8 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (1.00%) PERC
8 2 (1.00%) SLA
9 1 (0.50%) APQC
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.50%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (3.98%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.00%) Istio
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (25.87%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.44%) Databricks
3 16 (7.96%) SAP
4 7 (3.48%) Google
4 7 (3.48%) Oracle
5 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.99%) Informatica
8 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.49%) Workday
9 2 (1.00%) BMC
9 2 (1.00%) Cisco
9 2 (1.00%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.00%) IBM
9 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.00%) Remedy
9 2 (1.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.00%) Teradata
9 2 (1.00%) VMware
10 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto